Your Favorite Dark Wine Ink?

[JefferyS]

While looking at various brown inks during the past few weeks, I had a chance to try some Diamine Syrah, which is a purplish-brown color (nice).

 

Do you have any similar favorites? Not Concord grape purple (barf) but more like tawny port. Noodler must have some, but the cryptic names of inks drive me nuts.

 

Hmm..I meant to post this in Inky Thoughts. Sorry.

Edited March 30, 2011 by Jeffery Smith

[malpei]

Iroshizuku yama-budo

[Lorna Reed]

+1 for Iroshizuku Yama-budo.

[QuantumMisa]

Dunno if it's too vivid for what you're looking for, but have you seen Binder Burgundy? It's a simple 50-50 blend of Waterman Purple and Sheaffer Skrip Red, so you could adjust the mix to your liking. It was my first non-black/blue FP ink.

[antidote3]

Iroshizuku Yama-budo (#1, #2 and #3).

 

A very distant #4 Noodler's Black Swan in Australian Roses

[Hangglidernerd]

sounds like a good time to look at Goulet swab shop

[Thornton]

Noodler's Black Swan in Australian Roses followed closely my Rohrer & Klingner Alt-Bordeaux.

 

For something that has to be mixed. I like my house blend of Montblanc Bordeaux, Violet, and Black. It's about a 6:3:1 mix. You can play with the amounts to suit your taste.

[elderberry]

Caran d'Ache "Sunset". Writing sample on white paper can be seen here: writing sample Caran d'Ache "Sunset"

 

Looks even better on ivory coloured paper, though I haven't taken a picture of it.

[Trom]

Private Reserve Burgundy Mist. My brain tells me it is a very dark burgundy, but depending on the paper it has a lot of brown tones in it as those colours are two kissing cousins.

[in the flow]

I've just tried Diamine Syrah and Noodler's BSiAR. I'd lump them into the same "wine" -ish bucket.

[lapis]

My favorite is Diamine's Syrah. Note that this ink has often been considered to be a take-over of Richard's Binder Burgundy.

 

Mike http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu264/peli46/GlassofWine.gif

Edited March 30, 2011 by lapis

[Richard]

My favorite is Diamine's Syrah. Note that this ink has often been considered to be a take-over of Richard's Binder Burgundy.

A "take-over"? Hardly! I asked Diamine to make an ink to my spec (Binder Burgundy), I worked with them to get the color matched, and I named the result Syrah.

[lapis]

Richard! You're right on time. I was hoping you would give us the good word. (Honestly, I never could believe that which I had just "proposed"). That's not your philosophy and I can't believe Diamine doing that either. I only stated that which a few others here had said earlier, somewhere. I even coughed that out in my review on the ink.

 

Thanks again and all the best. One (oops... two) of my favourite reds.

 

Mike http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu264/peli46/Rose.png

[JefferyS]

Iroshizuku Yama-budo (#1, #2 and #3).

 

A very distant #4 Noodler's Black Swan in Australian Roses

 

I fiddled around with Goulet Pens' Swabs using my iPad last night. I'm not very good with the iPad, and that's why this question got posted in the wrong forum (tunnel vision on a wrong screen with most of my attention devoted to typos). It definitely helps me eliminate tutti fruitti purple colors, though. I can put the list I'm accumulating here through it, and that will be very helpful. I think with Black Swan, I have about 5 here.

Edited March 30, 2011 by Jeffery Smith

[in the flow]

heh, nice. Thanks, Richard!

[jbb]

Using a dip pen gives this ink more density... really I just felt like getting out a bottle of port and posing a photo.

 

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5223/5572685967_fbbaa61af6_b.jpg

Edited March 30, 2011 by jbb

[wlwilcox]

Currently, I have been using MB Burgundy Red and am enjoying it very much. In my Cross Townsend M-nib, this ink is writing very smooth with good shading. I also have a bottle of PR Plum and a bottle of Noodlers BSAR in shipment that I am looking forward to trying out.

Other than exploring the blue inks, I find that the deep wine color inks to be interesting.

[JefferyS]

This looks like a good starting point:

 

Caran d'Ache "Sunset"

Iroshizuku yama-budo

MontBlanc Burgundy Red

Noodler's Black Swan in Australian Rose

PR Plum

PR Burgundy Mist

Rohrer & Klingner Alt-Bordeaux

 

 

I've already got the Diamine Syrah. I'll try to pare the list down to maybe four with Goulet Pen swabs.

 

Thanks all!

[PDW]

My favorite is Diamine's Syrah. Note that this ink has often been considered to be a take-over of Richard's Binder Burgundy.

A "take-over"? Hardly! I asked Diamine to make an ink to my spec (Binder Burgundy), I worked with them to get the color matched, and I named the result Syrah.

 

As soon as I saw the subject line I was going to say 'Diamine Syrah'.

 

Richard, out of interest how did you make a colour that tones so beautifully with a a burgundy Skyline and a copper Esterbrook? Coming out of the Estie with an Osmiroid gold nib the effect is magical - thanks!

[mchenart]

I received a case of six bottles of De Atramentis wine inks last year as a reward for giving a lecture to the Taipei Pen Club. They were made of ink concentrates and thus have real smell of the wines themselves: Bordeaux, Cabernet France, Merlot, Cinsaut, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir. The Lemberger is another bottle of wine ink from De Atramentis, but I think is a German wine. A have a number of bottles of other inks in violet, purple or lavender. The ink samples were made with a small watercolour brush. Perhaps you'll find something you like here.